Great to see the CC doing well at this. It would be a hard car to be competitive at this because tires that wide do not tend to be very forgiving.
It takes a huge amount of skill despite all the bozos who think it *****. Truth is that most of the knockers (including several who road race) would look like dorks if they got out there against these international drift drivers... it is one thing to keep a car on line and cut out a very quick lap - it is another to control a powerslide with 335 rear tires and have the car exactly where you want it at any slide angle on demand.... try it - it's not easy and those skills will make a lot better driver on the street if you ever got caught out by ice or some hazard.
try this - go into a sharp 50mph turn in your Viper and instead of going in on trailing throttle, shift down to 2nd flick the steering the opposite direction to the turn and floor it while tossing the car back into the turn. Enter it sideways with almost full opposite lock - then steer through the turn on the throttle alone - keeping the car exactly in your lane... no fish tailing, but perfection - every time any turn you want.... then try it with one hand, waving to passers by....
all these drifters could do that and hold a conversation while doing it. My money says you propbably could not do that - and if you could - you'd appreciate what these guys do.
BTW - the competition is not made up of $5k ricer wrecks. All of the top cars would have enough in them to buy at least one Viper - some of them enough to buy several.... get real.
There's room for all forms of motorsport - be thankful DC supports some of them - even if not the one you want.... doesn't stop us competing in whichever one we choose. Some road racers think drag racing ***** and vice versa - does that make anyone feel better?
rant over - it's all in good fun - now I'm going to check out that video
